Tone Deaf Records
New - Orcutt, Bill - Self Titled - LP
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2021 repress
Bill Orcutt's eponymous record -- his first solo electric studio album -- shocks with its space and sensitivity.
- Orcutt's track selection mirrors his obsession with American popular song in its most banal manifestations, as radically reimagined via acoustic guitar on 2013's Twenty Five Songs 7" box set, and A History of Every One (EMEGO 173CD/LP, 2013).
- Many of the songs from those two releases are here -- but stretched into new arrangements that explore the upper regions of the guitar neck, and lighting up new corners of each arrangement with a sensitivity born from years of reinterpretation.
- With its deep-space beauty, harmonic complexity, and dark dissonance, Bill Orcutt is a stunning landmark in Orcutt's form-destroying trajectory.